Litta Madonna
E617237
The Litta Madonna is a renowned High Renaissance painting of the Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child, traditionally attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and housed in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
High Renaissance painting
ⓘ
painting ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | State Hermitage Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 19th century ⓘ |
| acquisitionMethod | purchase ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Madonna Litta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collection | State Hermitage Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| creatorSchool | Leonardo da Vinci workshop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Italian Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| currentSupport | canvas ⓘ |
| depicts |
Christ Child
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Virgin Mary ⓘ |
| depictsEvent | maternal care of the Virgin ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | State Hermitage Museum permanent exhibition ⓘ |
| features |
arched windows
ⓘ
breastfeeding motif ⓘ landscape background ⓘ pyramidal composition ⓘ |
| genre | religious painting ⓘ |
| iconographicTheme | Virgin nursing the Child ⓘ |
| iconographyType | Maria lactans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | circa 1490 ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Leonardo da Vinci’s Milan period ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Italian ⓘ |
| location | Saint Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
oil paint
ⓘ
tempera ⓘ |
| movement | High Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| museumDepartment | Italian Renaissance art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversial attribution
ⓘ
subtle chiaroscuro ⓘ tender interaction between mother and child ⓘ |
| originalSupport | wood panel ⓘ |
| partOf | Leonardo da Vinci attributed works corpus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | late 15th century ⓘ |
| possibleAttribution |
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marco d’Oggiono NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provenance | Litta family collection, Milan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| style | Leonardesque ⓘ |
| subjectHeading | Madonna and Child NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| support | panel ⓘ |
| title | Litta Madonna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalAttribution | Leonardo da Vinci NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transferHistory | transferred from panel to canvas ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.